
Robi Repository
Resources & updates from the Hudson High School media center
January 22, 2021
Ready for all-in
The media center has several teaching areas, including a self-contained Instructional Space that can accommodate a full class. The Instructional Space is equipped with a PC, VPU, speakers, webcam, and dry-erase walls. Teachers can reserve the Instructional Space as a room in Google Calendar, or they can reach out to the media center to make a booking. Teachers with large class sizes are welcome to contact us about using the media center to conduct lessons in a socially-distanced environment.
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Media Center receives PTO grant for diversity books
- Racism
- Civil liberties
- Immigration
- LGBTQ
- Gender identity
- Women's studies
- Transgender rights
- #MeToo
The books can be accessed in the Gale ebooks collection on the HHS library website:
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The power of pages
In Pages students can take advantage of the multimedia features of the iPad. They can add drawings, pictures, videos, and charts. They can also create ebooks, animated GIFs, and other multimedia files. Students can collaborate on documents and share them with their teachers who can add smart annotations to the docs. With a stylus, teachers can mark up a shared Pages document to provide feedback to a student.
This fall I hosted a PD session that showcased the features of Pages. Below you can see a tutorial video and document. Please reach out to me for ways to incorporate Pages into creative project ideas.
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Show YouTube videos without ads
Nothing is more embarrassing than having unwanted ads or suggested videos appear when you play a YouTube video to your students. Fortunately there is an easy solution that eliminates all advertisements and suggested videos.
When sharing a YouTube URL, simply add a hyphen between the 't' and the 'u' in the word YouTube. Voila! All ads and suggested videos disappear! Try it.
Here is a typical YouTube link (with ads):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYTmEgJL-I
Here's the same link with the hyphen (no ads):
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=IqYTmEgJL-I
Magic! For more information about this trick, view this article:
https://techtips.nwoca.org/index.php/2021/01/12/show-youtube-videos-without-ads-or-comments/
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Video streaming resources
- Feature Films for Education - This collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. The collection includes many popular Hollywood films. The titles include 12 Years a Slave, The Crucible, Hidden Figures, the Diary of Anne Frank, the Martian, the Life of Pi, the Shape of Water, as well as many Shakespeare films. The username and password for accessing Feature Films can be found on the Passwords for HHS Databases document on the media center website.
- Learn360 - This resource offers over 164,000 media resources. You can search through thousands of instructional videos on just about any topic. Learn360 also offers printables, audio files, speeches, maps, images, and interactive games. The username and password for Learn360 is the same as Feature Films.
- Discovery Education - This resource offers hundreds of educational videos that are searchable by subject and content standard. Hudson students and staff can sign in with Google.
- INFOhio Digital Video Collection - contains over 3,000 educational videos that are searchable by subject or keyword.
- PBS Learning Media - Contains many high-quality educational videos and interactive lessons, searchable by subject and grade level.
- Streaming Guidelines - Found on the media center website, this web page contains all the ins and outs of legally streaming videos in your classroom.
All of these resources can be found on the media center website. See Mr. Robitaille if you have any questions or requests.
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A few good resources
Here are some quick recommendations for resources that I use all the time. Add these to your toolbox.
- Awesome Screenshot - a website and a Chrome extension that allows you to take screen captures and videos of your screen. You can add annotations after saving images and use them for tutorials and demonstrations.
- Whiteboard Chat - allows you to collaborate on a digital whiteboard. You can use this resource to sketch concepts for students who view your whiteboard in real time on their screens. Or you can invite students via a class code to join a collaborative whiteboard.
- Twelve alternatives to Google Images - If you are looking for pathways to have your students locate royalty-free and high quality images, you probably want to look beyond Google. This link takes you to a Google document that you can reference for great alternatives for finding images for presentations.
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iCloud.com
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Checking your library account
- Click on the iSearch icon on the main library website.
- Select My Account in the top-right corner.
- For the User ID, type your 7-digit employee ID number.
- For the PIN, type your birthday in MMDD format. (Use four digits. Eg., April 9 is 0409.)
- Select the Checkouts tab to see your current loans.
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Ear protectors available for face masks
Contact Mr. Robitaille
Email: robitaia@hudson.k12.oh.us
Website: https://www.hudson.k12.oh.us/domain/798
Location: Hudson, OH, USA
Phone: (330) 653-1412
Twitter: @aussieandrew
View past newsletters at https://www.hudson.k12.oh.us/Page/14764